The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-17
THE ANARCHISTS.
THEY PAY THE PENALTY
OF THEIR CRIME AND
THE LAW IS VINDI-
GATED .

ening in their utterances that it was
deemed advisable for the peace of the
city to have the police dispense the
mob. Samuel Fiellen was speaking
at the time when Inspector Bonfield
decided to dispense the meeting.
Seven companies ofpolicemen, 175 men,
in platoons, reaching from curb to
curb, marched from their stations to
Desplaines street north of the wagon
where the speakers were. AS they
drew near, Fielden is sworn to have
shouted to his followers:
"Here come the bloodhounds you
do your duty and I'll do mine"
Capt. Ward, of the police, called
out:
"In the name of the people of the
State of Illinois | command You to
peaceably disperser'
Fielden stepped down from the
wagon exclaiming:
ave are peaccable"
1t was claimed by the prosecution
that the word "peaceable' was the sig
nal aged on. There was dead silence
for perhaps ten seconds, the crowd
slowly moving off and the police stand
ing firm, when strange fixing
sound was heard near the mouth of the
little alley and thence little ball rose
in II curve over the wagon and fell be-
tween the third and fourth companies
of police. There was binding
flash, au explosion that was heard two
miles and II deep prolonged roar echo
ing from the building-then appall-
ing screams and volley of pistol
shots. The smoke lifted, and the
ground appeared covered with slain
but only for an instant. Two whole
companies of police had been thrown
to the ground, of whom one, Mat
thias J. Degan, was instantly killed,
six MORALLY wounded and sixty 9TH
ers hurt in various degrees.
But the police rallied at once and
with the firmness and steadiness of
veterans, they sprang forward, empty
ing their revolvers into the flying
crowd as they went, and following
their shots with their clubs they cleared
the street in three minutes of all save
the dead and wounded. From alley,
gutter and hallway came deep groans
and curses.
1t is estimated that twenty of the
crowd were killed and about $50
wounded. An Anarchist named Kist-
Ter was killed by the bomb. Besides
Officer began, killed outright, the po-
licemen who died of their wounds
We're J. j. Burnett, George Miller,
Timothy Flanihan, Michael Shehan,
Thos. Reddin and Noel Hansen.
This is a part of the histoN
nv of that eventful night, since
which time August Spies, Sam
uel Fielden, Albert Il. Parsons,
George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael
and Adolphus Fischer were
charged, tried and convicted of being
the instigatOrs of the riot and throw
ers of the deadly dynamite bomb.
An anxious public have watched
their case as it went from court to
court, and it was with a sigh of sat
isfaction the announcement was re-
ceived that all hope had gone and they
must die. Such was the sentence of
the Supreme Court of Illinois and
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IL,
the day set for the execution. No in
reference except from the Governor
could stop that execution, and such in
reference never came until Wednes-
day, the 9th, when he committed the
sentence of two of them, Fielden and
Schwab, to imprisonment for life.
There was no hope then for the others,
and with courage born of despairLingg
the youngest but most violent of the
condemned seven, blew himself into
eternity with one of his deadly
bombs, a few hours before the execu-
ton, thus cheating the gallOws of
victim. His death though was a more
horrible one than that of the rest.
For several hours after the explosion
of the bomb, which he had deliberate
" placed in his mouth and ignited
with lighted candle, he was still con-
scious, aud presented the most hOrri
BILE sight, with the lower part of his
jaw completely torn off and his thick
auburn hair still matted with blood.
His cheeks were torn out and hung
down in jagged pieces upon his neck,
and his teeth were knocked out, the
gums torn away and but a small stump
of the tongue appeared, prOtruding
from the mangled throat.
In the upper part of the throat i'm
mediately under the lower part of the
jaw bone, terrible gap had been torn
out from the inside.
Teeth, bits of jaw bone, shreds of
flesh and blood marked the way over
the stone tagging, to where he was
carried.